Make a business card with AI

A business card is the smallest thing in a brand identity and the fussiest. A card a few centimetres across has no room for accidents: a phone number with one swapped digit turns the whole print run into rubbish. So a neural network suits a business card best when it handles the design, not the text.

That's how it's put together here. The network draws the background, pattern or illustration, while the name, job title, phone and email are set as real text on top. Image models draw letters as part of the picture and get digits and letters wrong; typeset text doesn't, and you can edit it one character at a time.

What you need for a business card

1. All the text — name, job title, phone, email, website, address. Exactly as it should appear.
2. A logo, if you have one — upload the file. If not, you can make one first with the logo generator.
3. Field and mood — "formal for a lawyer", "warm for a bakery", "minimalist for a photographer".
4. Colours — your brand ones, if you already have them.
5. One side or two — a front with the logo and a back with the contacts, or everything on one side.

Describe the card — the designer will put it together right here.

Business card size in pixels

A print file needs 300 dots per inch. The standard US and Canadian card is 3.5 × 2 inches, which makes 1050 × 600 pixels. Ask for a canvas of that size: the card exports at double pixel density, so the file comes out at 2100 × 1200 — with room to spare, that's already 600 dpi. For other formats, take the canvas from the table.

Check before printing

• Every digit of the phone and every letter of the email — by hand, out loud. It's the one mistake you can't fix after the print run.
• Small text no smaller than 7–8 points. Everything reads on a screen; not on card stock.
• Contrast. Grey text on a light background looks lovely in the mock-up and disappears on matte paper. Every card is checked in a browser for contrast and clipped text before you see it, but paper always eats a little more than a screen.
• QR code — scan it with your phone from a printed proof, not from the screen.

A digital business card

If you don't need to print, the card is sent as an image in a messenger or added to a profile. Then the limits are softer: the same PNG works, and the format can be square or vertical to fit a phone screen. Anything that changes later — job title, number, address — changes by editing the text, without redrawing the background.

In the Twelver chat a business card is built in layers: the design from the network, the contacts as real text. The whole identity — logo, business card, poster — is made in one conversation. Back to the image generation guide.